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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: AMuzi Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:14:12 -0500 Organization: Yellow Jersey, Ltd. Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <0ar70khusn41aijlb885r0hn57u0ccdos3@4ax.com> <92bc0klk942kpaa5uqlfi8li5bvf1vn77f@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:14:13 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9a7862f96992f15a12ccaeb89c0dd46b"; logging-data="3212262"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+VXHhgFp1tAisLi9K19nb9" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ABQ7lbOIedGKB7batcSJejYBLfQ= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3528 On 4/21/2025 12:43 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote: > On 4/21/2025 1:26 PM, AMuzi wrote: >> On 4/21/2025 12:22 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote: >>> On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 11:01:48 -0400, Frank Krygowski >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 4/21/2025 7:44 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote: >>>>> ...I, a tourist, had >>>>> to explain to taxi drivers that I wanted to go where >>>>> there were no >>>>> tourists. Unfortunately, that resulted in some late >>>>> night walks back >>>>> to the boat. I would not do that again in today's world. >>>> >>>> SO much fear! >>> >>> Really? So, at your age, you'd be perfectly happy to >>> walk, alone at >>> night, through unfamiliar neighborhoods in a foreign >>> country? >>> >>> If you answer "yes," you're either a liar or a moron. >> >> +1 >> >> https://www.azfamily.com/2025/04/19/man-rips-victims-eye- >> out-random- attack-east-phoenix/ > > That's a typical response from you, Andrew. You found _one_ > scary story, out of how many peaceful, unremarkable > nighttime walks every day around the world? You can't really > be pretending that incident is representative of the actual > level of risk! How many attacks per million nighttime walks > do you think actually occur? > > That's aside from the fact that the timid tricyclist > specified "foreign country." But Phoenix is in _this_ > country. I'm pretty sure the foreign countries that I've > visited have all been shown to be safer, on average, than > America. > > That was in the morning news, one of several similar across the nation this weekend. As usual. https://www.aol.com/news/alabama-dad-jacob-couch-dies-050914741.html?guccounter=1 https://cwbchicago.com/2025/04/man-gets-4-years-for-shooting-younger-brother-he-was-tired-of.html https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/us-news/brute-who-hit-ny-post-reporter-still-on-lam-after-double-stab/ -- Andrew Muzi am@yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971